Find deeper, fuller life.

Brown Line Vineyard (named for Chicago's Northside "L" train) exists to help Chicagoans find deeper, fuller lives and connect with God. With a healthy sense of humor, we create space for people to experience for themselves the good God Jesus showed humanity - especially people who have never fit well culturally in religious settings. And with humility and an open mind, we engage our wider community by pursuing the compassion, justice, and personal growth work of Jesus.

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Unfortunately, talking about God or spirituality often divides people. This is why Brown Line Vineyard is a Jesus-centered community. We see in the person and teaching of Jesus that the deepest life and the most bridge-building life are actually the same thing. Many religious people present Jesus as a competitive figure, who is over and against other religions (and especially non-religious people), but our experience of Jesus is entirely different.

The legacy of churches is ushering in social change, BUT the legacy of churches is also being on the wrong side of history. Texts from the Bible have been misused throughout history to stifle change and maintain the status quo, but in-context readings of even the most challenging-to-modern-sensibilities Bible passages reveal the heart of the earliest Jesus communities to be about justice, equity, and inclusion.